Category Archives: People

Draft translation from Agamben’s Opus Dei: An Archeology of Office

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has made available the preface, here. This book, and Highest Poverty, are being translated for Stanford UP. More here.

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Schmitt book now in paperback

Posted on March 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos, edited by Stephen Legg, is now available in paperback. You can also preview the introduction there. The book includes a slightly revised version of my piece on Schmitt that first appeared in … Continue reading →

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Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza – panel discussion

Posted on March 2, 2012 by stuartelden

The discussion of Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza at the Association of American Geographers included Keith Woodward, Susan Ruddick, Stuart Elden, Vinay Gidwani, and Warren Montag. You can find the audio recording here. I’ve posted the following before, but you can read a … Continue reading →

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Agamben translations under contract

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has the news that he will be translating two pieces of Agamben’s Homo Sacer series – Opus dei: Archeologia dell’ufficio and Altissima povertà: Regole monastiche e forma di vita – details here. And here’s a link to the plan … Continue reading →

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China Miéville on contemporary London

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Powerful writing in The New York Times. [A fuller, illustrated version is here] London is full of ghosts — ghost walks; a city’s worth of cemeteries; ghost-advertising, scabs of paint on brick. The city invoked something, read a grimoire it … Continue reading →

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Luise Fischer on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Nice review of Reading Kant’s Geography at H-Net. The review is freely available, but here are a couple of excerpts: Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta’s edition Reading Kant’s Geography is a masterful attempt “to remedy this glaring neglect” and to … Continue reading →

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Hallward interviews Chomsky

Posted on February 29, 2012 by stuartelden

In the new issue of Radical Philosophy – open access.

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Simon Critchley interview

Posted on February 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Simon Critchley here. It covers his new book Faith of the Faithless and a range of other questions, political, theological and philosophical.

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The Geopolitics of King Lear – discussion

Posted on February 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Here is the audio file of the discussion following my presentation to the Anachronic Shakespeare conference. It took a bit of work to clean up the recording and balance the volume levels a little better. The recording of the lecture itself … Continue reading →

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Kanishka Goonewardena on Lefebvre, State, Space, World

Posted on February 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Kanishka Goonewardena has written a review of Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (requires subscription). He begins with the ‘bad news’ that for a range of reasons Lefebvre’s De l’État is unlikely … Continue reading →

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